Linguistic Discoveries Archive
Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study that integrates linguistic evidence with data from archeology and paleoclimatology reveals that the first languages in North America can be
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A few years ago, archaeologists excavating an Iron Age site known as Irulegi in northern Spain discovered a flat bronze artifact shaped like
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The languages in the Indo-European family are spoken by almost half of the world's population. This group includes a huge number of languages, ranging from English
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the UNESCO World Heritage Site Boğazköy-Hattusha in north-central Turkey have discovered a new Indo-European language. This was once the capital
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Painstaking archaeological exploration is a familiar, often widely admired, method of unearthing history. Less celebrated, but also invaluable, is the piecing together of
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology. A new study indicates that one of
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Understanding when, why, and where our languages play an essential role in the reconstruction of ancient history. Scientists have used a different and
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - No matter which language you use, it is certain the history of your language goes far back in time. Historians think the first
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Linguistic Discoveries
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Google’s new tool named Fabricius is a promising translator that will attempt to decipher hieroglyphs and ancient Egyptian images. The AI (Artificial Intelligence)
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Linguistic Discoveries
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Have we misunderstood the contents of the famous epic poem Beowulf? According to one professor who spent eight years studying the poem, Beowulf
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Boontling language was invented sometime in the 1800s, but it’s unclear by whom. Some think parents made the language so they could talk
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Linguistic Discoveries
AncientPages.com - A previously unidentified language has been found by linguists from the Lund University in Sweden, during their work in the Malay Peninsula. The language has been given
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Few manuscripts have caused as much controversy and debate as the mysterious Voynich manuscript. Is it a hoax or a genuine book? It seems the verdict is
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